The Work Byron Katie Quotes

#1. Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

Joseph Delaney

#2. If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Byron Katie

#3. For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Carlos Castaneda

#4. The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Byron Katie

#5. To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Byron Katie

#6. There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

Robin Hobb

#7. Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Byron Katie

#8. This isolation, this deep pit in the bottom of my stomach, didn't have to hurt so much. - Aquamarine Rosabelle bonus included in Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

Chamera Sampson

#9. Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Byron Katie

#10. Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Marjorie M. Liu

#11. There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential.

Dionna L. Hayden

#12. Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

Bernard Haisch

#13. Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Byron Katie

#14. Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Byron Katie

#15. When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Byron Katie

#16. This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

Betty Ford

#17. The Past can be a nice place to visit, but it's a terrible place to live." - Unknown

Mark D. Paul

#18. When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

Byron Katie

#19. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

#20. When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

Byron Katie

#21. I don't need to be liked.

John Malkovich

#22. When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

Byron Katie

#23. That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Byron Katie

#24. People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

Byron Katie

#25. The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

Phyllis Schlafly

#26. I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work ... Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Byron Katie